Quoting: nitroflowEitr is Isometric and pixel art so I'm happy to have both.

I wouldn't mind this released DRM-free too.

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I'm personally waiting for Eitr (will come out DRM-free as well).

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Quoting: johndoeThis is strange... I played both (MLL and M2033) on my Intel IRIS Pro (no nvidia - no amd) and they ran just fine - but - with steam version.

That's what I've heard, from unofficial sources. GOG didn't really clarify what happened there. Only that at least one game was submitted but never released.

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Quoting: johndoeSeems there are BIG FANS (you, danniello and me) here - very sad for us.

I really feel betrayed - bought Metro Last Light years ago knowing it had a lightning bug with mesa and solved it.

I can't say I'm a big fan. They put some of their games on GOG DRM-free, but they didn't make a good effort to make their Linux version work well, so GOG didn't even accept it.

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Quoting: scaineIt's laughable. We'll see piracy like never before thanks to this. It's infuriating.

Why is it infuriating though (the piracy part)? Let them get what's coming. Some just never learn, like Disney vs Netflix and all the similar exclusivity wars. They have no one to blame but themselves.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4A_Games [External Link]

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Quoting: dannielloAnd who will buy this high-end Linux PC console that is not subsidized (so expensive)?

PC gamers that already have high-end Windows PC that could play all games for this PC console? I do not think so.

The whole console vs PC division is completely artificial, and incumbents are happy to keep it this way, feeding their koolaid that low end subsidized consoles refreshed once in five years is exactly what everyone needs.

This only happens because there aren't any other options. Let someone make a competitive high end console, and market will expand. Ease of use and interface factor (contoller and etc.) are not really correlated in any way with low end-ness and subsidies. It's just "how it's done" now by incumbents.

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Quoting: poiuzYou mean like Valve whose platform only exists because of this exact behavior?

Valve claimed before they don't force exclusivity on developers. They are guilty of various lock-in issues though (such as Steamworks). But most developers are fine releasing in other stores as well when they release on Steam, as long as they avoid those lock-ins technically. I.e. there is no basis for the argument "exclusivity is needed to sustain games development".

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Quoting: Hal_KadoTo be honest I fully support this business model, some of Sony's exclusives are the best games of the generation. In a world where everything has to be continually monetized I'm not sure some of these games would have been made without Sony.

Nothing stopped Sony from not making them exclusives besides their anti-competitive market control thirst. So why do you support such trash model? Any normal publisher pays for making the game, and then profits when it's sold in as many stores as possible.

But the likes of Sony are not normal publishers, they abuse their market position, to increase lock-in with walled garden exclusivity. It's a vertical monopolization effect. They merged publishing and distribution business into one, and that hurts rather than helps the gaming industry. The argument that "we need that to make games" is simply bunk used by oligopolists, to whitewash anti-competitive practices.

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Quoting: Whitewolfe80Well i would if cared in anyway about drm but what i ll say on Feral position its 100 percent understandable since they have no free reign on which platforms their port is allowed to come out on. I am not a contract lawyer but i am willing to bet the more platforms you want to make a port avilable for the more cost and risk in your example feral absorb.

My point is, Feral themselves decided to make their games Steam exclusives. And not with all of their games they were forced by original publishers to do so. Yet people seem to be oblivious about that, while bashing Epic / Deep Silver in this case. Feral aren't any better.

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